Sharp, original, passionate.
For more from Max Gladstone, check out: The Craft Sequence Three Parts Dead Two Serpents Rise Full Fathom Five Last First Snow Four Roads Cross.
Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone\'s Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.
As if that weren\'t enough, Cat and Raz, supporting characters from Three Parts Dead , are back too, fighting monster pirates; skeleton kings drink frozen cocktails, defying several principles of anatomy; jails, hospitals, and temples are broken into and out of; choirs of flame sing over Alt Coulumb; demons pose significant problems; a farmers\' market proves more important to world affairs than seems likely; doctors of theology strike back
Monk-Technician Abelard performs several miracles
The Rats! play Walsh\'s Place; and dragons give almost-helpful counsel.
Tara Abernathy, the god\'s in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world\'s fiercest necromantic firm--and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world.
Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning\'s creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god\'s church.
The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren\'t happy.
The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. --NPR Max Gladstone\'s Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.
Sharp, original, passionate
